I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
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.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
God has no religion.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
