As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

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

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

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

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

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

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.

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.

Prayer is a turning to God.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Devotion is a social force.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.