From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
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.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
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.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
