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

We must respect other religions, even as we respect our own. Mere tolerance thereof is not enough.

No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious. Response to atheist, Alfred Kerr (Winter 1927) who after deriding ideas of God and religion at a dinner party in the home of the publisher Samuel Fischer, had queried him "I hear that you are suppose to be deeply religious."

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

As a child, I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.

Our time is distinguished by wonderful achievements in the fields of scientific understanding and the technical application of those insights. Who would not be cheered by this? But let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind. What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living. Written statement (September 1937).

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

One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the time since, and right now, powerful voices are always raised in favor of bigotry and thought control.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. Letter to an atheist (1954).

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Islam is the best religion, with the worst followers.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Letter to Mme. d'Épinal, Ferney (1760-12-26)

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Ours is assuredly the most ridiculous, the most absurd and the most bloody religion which has ever infected this world.

Such religion as there can be in modern life, every individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself.