If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

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

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

I don’t believe in icons.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

To live is to think.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

The lie is a condition of life.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.