There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.