We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
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.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
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.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
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.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
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.
