A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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

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

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

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

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

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

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

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

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

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

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

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

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

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

Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies