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

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

 —Benjamin Whichcote

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

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.  —Elbert Hubbard

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.—H.L. Mencken

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.                  —Louise Erdrich

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

—The Dalai Lama

Did St Francis really preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.                    —Rebecca West

Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion — several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven.                

—Mark Twain

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

 —Mohandas Gandhi