If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
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.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
