When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

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.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.