Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
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.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Prayer is a turning to God.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
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.
