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

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

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.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

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 simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

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.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

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

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.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

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