Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
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.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Devotion is a social force.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
