We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
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.
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.
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.
God is not a diversion.
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.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.