How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
