It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
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.
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.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
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.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.