All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
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.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
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.
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.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
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.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.