Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
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.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
