All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Devotion is a social force.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
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.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.