Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
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.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
God has no religion.
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.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Prayer is a turning to God.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
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 religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
