Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others.

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

These sociologists who talk so facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The true laws of God are the laws of our own well-being.