Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
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.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
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.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.