While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
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.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
God has no religion.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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.
God is not a diversion.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.