The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Prayer is a turning to God.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
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.
Devotion is a social force.
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.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
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.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
