Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
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.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
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.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.
