Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Prayer is a turning to God.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

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

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

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

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

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

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

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.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.