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.

God has no religion.

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

Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

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

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

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 art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.