Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
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.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
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.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
