I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

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.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

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.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

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.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.