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

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

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.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

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

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

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

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.

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.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

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

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.