A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

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.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

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.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

Devotion is a social force.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

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.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Faith without doubt is addiction

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

God does not work for you, He works with you.

God has no religion.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

God is not a diversion.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world

He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

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.

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.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

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 simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.

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.

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.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

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.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

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.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

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.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Prayer is a turning to God.

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Scientist believe in things, not in persons

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

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.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

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.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

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.

The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.

The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

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.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

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.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude

The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

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.

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.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

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.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

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.

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.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.