Religion is what gives a person hope to keep walking even in the darkest times.

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

Religion without reason is merely an illusion of religion – it is a mockery of religion, like it has become today.

I am pain stricken to say that, various —educational— institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom as their motto. Let me tell you this, fear of the Lord, Santa Claus, Krishna, Thor, Hulk or any other imaginary being brings merely the illusion of wisdom, not wisdom. And illusion of wisdom is a billion times more harmful than lack of wisdom.

My mission is to make the external God of human society obsolete in front of humanity's internal Godliness.

It is a mistake to assume that God is interested only, or even chiefly, in religion.

So many religions, so many paths to reach the one and the same goal.

Who has a better religion than he who submits himself entirely to God, intelligently and knowingly and follows Abraham's perfect creed?

It is strange that anyone should be so foolish as to think that religion and faith can be thrust down a person's throat at the point of the sword or a bayonet.

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

Man has never been the same since God died.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof is that I have become one.

If your religion does not work at home, don't export it.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

God has granted to every people a prophet in its own tongue.

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

Religion's greatest task is to destroy the myth that accumulation of wealth and the achievement of comfort are the chief vocations of man.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.