The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Religion is the opium of the masses.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Devotion is a social force.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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.
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.
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 believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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.
