" I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. " | " Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. " | " When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. " |
" My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. " | " The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. " | " Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? " |