Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
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.
God has no religion.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
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.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
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.
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.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification