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

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

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

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.

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

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

God has no religion.

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

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

Devotion is a social force.

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.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

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.