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“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.”

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

“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.”

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.”

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.”

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”

“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.”

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”

“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”

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

“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”