To be young is the only religion.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religions.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the the inviolable condition of life.
The modern man is in general, even with the best will, unable to give religious ideas a significance for culture and national character which they deserve.
The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge.
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Revealed religion is manifested religion, because in it God has become wholly manifest.
Religious ideas have arisen from the same need as have all the other achievements of civilization: from the necessity of defending oneself against the crushingly superior force of nature.
Religious conviction may thwart a timid desire but nothing can stand against genuine lust.
