Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time

Prayer is a turning to 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.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

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

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.

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.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

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.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.