Faith, Spirituality and Religion

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

Who seeks shall find.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.