Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.