We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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.
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.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.