The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
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.
God has no religion.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
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.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Devotion is a social force.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
