Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
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.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
God has no religion.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.