Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

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 more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

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.

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.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

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

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.

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.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.