Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.