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

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

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.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.

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.

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.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.