How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
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.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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.
