Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
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.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
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.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
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.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
