Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
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.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
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.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
