Religion is the opium of the masses.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
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.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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.
God is not a diversion.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
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.