This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
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.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
