In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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.
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.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
