Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
Devotion is a social force.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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.