“I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.”

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

“There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That’s a good religion.”

“Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.”

“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.”

“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ”

“I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.”

“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”

“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.”

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

“Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.”

“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”

“If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.”

“Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.”

“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

“For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.”

“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.” 

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” 

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”