Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
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.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
