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.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

God has no religion.

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

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

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.

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

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Devotion is a social force.

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.

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.

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

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.