What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
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.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
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.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
