In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
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.
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.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
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.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
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.