It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
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.
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.
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.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
