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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong.

I think religion is as flawed an enterprise as any other human endeavor, but the interests and ambitions of religion are the right interests and ambitions.

I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.