Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

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

God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.

Scientist believe in things, not in persons

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

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

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

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

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

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.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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

He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger

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

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

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.

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

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.