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.
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.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
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.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
