The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

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

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.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.

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.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

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.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.