Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
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.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
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.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
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.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
