When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
God always takes the simplest way.
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
"If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee." And then he got up, and said: "And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it." So he began to climb the tree.