If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
Devotion is a social force.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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.
