Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
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.'
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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.
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.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.