Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
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.
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.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
