In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
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.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
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.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
