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.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
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.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
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.
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.
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 are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
