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.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
