I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
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.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
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 about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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.
God has no religion.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
