When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
God has no religion.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.