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.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

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.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.

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 art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

God is not a diversion.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.