Faith is a state of openness or trust.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
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.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
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 did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
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.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.