You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

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.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

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

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.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

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