Religion is the opium of the masses.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
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.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.