We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
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.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
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.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
