I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

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.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

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 may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Prayer is a turning to God.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.