The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.

The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.

I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

One religion is as true as another.

The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.