Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

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'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

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

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

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

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

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.

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

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

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.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.