Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

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.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

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.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

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.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

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.

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.

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

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

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

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

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

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

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.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.