I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

I consider western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ’s Christianity.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

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. 13 January 1997.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. The word Charity is here used as a translation of the Latin Caritas, and the original Greek Agape, which were words for "Love", and used to denote the highest and most self-transcending forms of Love.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah your God has commanded you. Six days you shall labor, and shall do all your work, And the seventh day shall be a sabbath to Jehovah your God. You shall not do any work, you nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male slave, nor your female slave, nor your ox, nor your ass, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger that is within your gates; so that your male slave and your female slave may rest like yourself. And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm. On account of this Jehovah your God has commanded you to keep the sabbath day.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It is better to stay silent and let people think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Faith is a candle, while reason is the sun. You don't need a candle unless the sun has set. From a character in a story

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.