If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

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.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

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.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Scientist believe in things, not in persons

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.