Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

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

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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

Scientist believe in things, not in persons

Devotion is a social force.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

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.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

God has no religion.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.