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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion; or with any other feeling than regret, and hope, and brotherly commiseration.

I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

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

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

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

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

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.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

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