The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.
The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
“A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.”
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me.
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
God was, to me, a lovely dream, a brave make-believe daddy who provided comforting answers to those who couldn't bear the prevailing evidence.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.