Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
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.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
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.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
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.
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.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
