Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
-Jasper Fforde
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
-Issac Asimov
A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it and use it.
He who knows his soul knows this truth: “I am beyond everything finite; I now see that the Spirit, alone in a space with its ever-new joy, has expressed itself as the vast body of nature…I am the wisdom and power that sustain all creation.”
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.