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

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

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

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.

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.

Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce

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

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

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

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.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.

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

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

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

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.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

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