Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

I say, “You may be right, but don’t knock it until you’re tried it. Don’t say, ‘I think it’s worthless; therefore I’m not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does.'” Maybe that’s an even worse mistake than praying might be.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to church. I don't read the Bible. But I believe that the word "Spirit" with a capital S points to an ultimate reality which I give my heart to.