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

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

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.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

God is not a diversion.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

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

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.

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

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

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

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

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

God does not work for you, He works with you.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.