Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

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.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth

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

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

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

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

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

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

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