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.
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.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Devotion is a social force.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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.
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.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
