My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
God has no religion.
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.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
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.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce