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.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
