Religion is the opium of the masses.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

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

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

God has no religion.

There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

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

Devotion is a social force.

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.

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

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.