Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

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

We are circumcized or baptised - Jews or Moslems or Christians - before we know we are human beings.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.