Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Devotion is a social force.

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

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.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

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.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

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.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.