All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

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.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Faith without doubt is addiction

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

God does not work for you, He works with you.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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 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.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.