The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
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.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
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 can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
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 believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
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.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
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.
