There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
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.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.