It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Devotion is a social force.
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.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
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.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.