“Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.”
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“My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.”
“We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
“My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.”
“A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
“What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.”
“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”
“And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.”
“Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.”
“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.”
“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.”
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”
“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.”
“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”
“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”
“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”
“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.”
“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”
“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!”
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.”