The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul; “at my will mountains will crumble up”.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
A spring of infinite power is coiled up and is inside this little body and that spring is spreading itself.