Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
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.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
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.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
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.
