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

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

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

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

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.

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

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

God does not work for you, He works with you.

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

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

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