An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.

Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce

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.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world

Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

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.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

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.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

Faith without doubt is addiction

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

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.