How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
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.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
