The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
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.
Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking… fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest ideals; place them day and night before you; and out of that will come great work.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. So we have to know how to act.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book?