If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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.
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.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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.
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.
Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
