Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
