We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
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.
Faith without doubt is addiction
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.