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.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
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.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
