I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

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.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

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.

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

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.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.