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

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

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

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

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.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

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

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

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.

The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.

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

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.