I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .

God has no religion.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

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.

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.

There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

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.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.