Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
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.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
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.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
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.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
