The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
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.
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.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
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.'
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
