As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

My dear friend, I may be the victim of wrong perceptions, and what I write here may not reflect the truth. However, this is my experience of the situation. This is what I really feel in my heart. If there is anything wrong in what I write, let us sit down and look into it together

Knowledge is the first obstacle of the mind that a meditator should be able to remove. We should not be too sure of anything.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. Piety is the possibility of the removal of the last traces of a firm foundation upon which we can erect a system of thought.

At bottom, knowledge of God in faith is always this indirect knowledge of God, knowledge of God in His works, and in these particular works in the determining and using of certain creaturely realities to bear witness to the divine objectivity. What distinguishes faith from unbelief, erroneous faith and superstition is that it is content with this indirect knowledge of God.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Everyone who has to contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously.

The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions.

We must not get caught up in an emotional reaction against such phrases as 'believing on authority' ... Everything depends on the character of the authority and the character of believing.