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My religion is very simple, my religion is kindness.

To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

Perdition shall be the lot of man, except for those who have faith and do good works and exhort each other to justice and fortitude.

I have tried to keep things in my hands and lost them all, but what I have given into the Lord's hands I still possess.

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammedanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place -- social service -- the ants creed, the bees creed.

Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen.

One gives praise to God not only through prayers of thanksgiving, but also through obedience to His commandments and service to others, especially those less fortunate than ourselves.

And lips say "God be pitiful," who never said, "God be praised.

Religion: a daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.