That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man...
I Thy God am the Light and the Mind which were before substance was divided from Spirit and darkness from Light.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
All religions must be tolerated...for...every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.
The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
God is a reality of spirit...He cannot...be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.
You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.