If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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.
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.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.