Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

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

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.

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

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.