Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.

 —Albert Einstein

While I was young, when I burned with the love of God, I thought I would convert the whole world to God. But soon I realized that it would be more than enough to convert the people who lived in my town, and I made an effort for a long time, but was not successful. Then I realized that my agenda was still too ambitious, and I focused on the people in my household. But I could not convert them either. Finally I realized: I must work on myself, if I’m really going to have something to offer God. But I didn’t even accomplish this.

 —Rabbi Chaim Halberstam

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

—David Ormsby-Gore

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

—Aldous Huxley

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

 —Anne Frank

It seems the more learned a man is the less consideration he has for another man’s belief.

—Will Rogers

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

 —Pascal

What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.

 – Adlai Stevenson

I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul.

 —J.B.S. Haldane

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

 —Oscar Wilde

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

 —George Bernard Shaw

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

—Cathy Ladman

In my father’s house are many mansions.                   —John, XIV, 2

Among all my patients in the second half of life ... there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

– Carl Jung