Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

Prayer is a turning to God.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could 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.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

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.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .