The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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 a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
