This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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.
