The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

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

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.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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.

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

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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

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.