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.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Prayer is a turning to God.
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.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
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.
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.
