Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.