I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
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.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
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.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
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.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
