Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

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.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

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.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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.

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.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

Prayer is a turning to God.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.