How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
God is not a diversion.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
Prayer is a turning to God.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
