Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
Devotion is a social force.
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.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
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.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
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.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.