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.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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.
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 higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
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 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 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.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
