Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
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.
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.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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.
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.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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.
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.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.