I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Toleration is the best religion.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

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.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

I'm a married gay man, so you might think that I appreciate the government forcing a Christian baker or photographer or florist to act against their religion in order to cater, photograph, or decorate my wedding. But you'd be wrong. A government that can force Christians to violate their conscience can force me to violate mine.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

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