God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

Prayer is a turning to God.

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

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

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.

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

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

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.