One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
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.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
