Religion is the opium of the masses.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
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.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.