If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
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.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Faith without doubt is addiction
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
