Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

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

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

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

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

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

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

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

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