If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

God has no religion.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

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

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

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

God does not work for you, He works with you.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.