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.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
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.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
