In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
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.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
