I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us