You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
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.
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.
