So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.

The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.