I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

There are no facts, only interpretations.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

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.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

I have always believed in God.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

I am a Catholic.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

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

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.