If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Devotion is a social force.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
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.
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.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
