While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
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.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
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.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
God has no religion.
