I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Devotion is a social force.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
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.
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.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.