Faith without doubt is addiction

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

God is not a diversion.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.