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

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

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

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.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in 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.

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

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

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.

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.

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

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

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