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.

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

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

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.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

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

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

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.

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.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

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

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

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.

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.