I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
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.
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.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.