Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

Religion isn't bad, it's our consciousness relativity to religion.

There's a reason Mahatma Ghandi said "I like your Christ, I don't like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

The principle is that religion doesn't make 'you'. 'You' make your 'religion'.

Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Has it ever struck you that the trouts bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men