One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
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.
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.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
