God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
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.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
