Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

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

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

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

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

God is not a diversion.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Prayer is a turning to God.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

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.'

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

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.

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

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce