A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

[T]here remains [in some parts of the country] a strong bias towards the old error, that without some sort of alliance or coalition between Govt. & Religion neither can be duly supported. Such indeed is the tendency to such a coalition, and such its corrupting influence on both parties, that the danger cannot be too carefully guarded agst.

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.

It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency to usurpation on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them, will be best guarded agst. by an entire abstinence of the Govt. from interference in any way whatsoever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order, and protecting each sect agst. trespasses on its legal rights by others.

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion, and don’t talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

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.

The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. till, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods and disputes among them and so on! Oh the pity! Oh the pity!

Love is verily the heart of all religions.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments.

But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others

Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ.

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.

Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art.

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money!

In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.