We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

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.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

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

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

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

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

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

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

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

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

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.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth