As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
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.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
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.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
God has no religion.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
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.
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.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
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.
