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

The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

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

There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.

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

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

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

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

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

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.

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

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

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.

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

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.

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.