It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

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.

The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

Prayer is a turning to God.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

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.