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

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

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

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

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

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

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

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

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.