We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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.