We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
