What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
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.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
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.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
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.
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.
