Theology is unnecessary.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Words are loaded pistols.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

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.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

Truth is what works.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

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.

It is natural to die as to be born.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

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

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

My message is that God is a good God.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

I serve God.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

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

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.