You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
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.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
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.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
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.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
