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.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
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.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
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.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.