The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
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.
God has no religion.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
Prayer is a turning to God.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
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.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
