From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

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.

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.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

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

The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

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

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

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.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.