Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
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
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
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.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
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.
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.'
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
