In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.

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

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

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.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

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

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

God has no religion.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

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.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

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

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

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.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.