Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
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 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.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
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.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
