Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
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.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.