For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.