If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
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.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
