The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
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.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
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.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
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.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
