I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

Every man is his own hell.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Our life is made by the death of others.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.