As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
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.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
