Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
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.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.