Doubt everything. Find your own light.

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.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.

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.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

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.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.