“Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.”

“You can have Jesus in your spirit and an outrgeous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called it's called religion. That's what it's called dead dry religion......Jesus said you are a bunch of white washed tombs full of dead men's bones, and I tell you if that didn't describe me I don't know what did, because on Sunday mornings I dressed it up and took it to church.”

“The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.”

“Grace is not a doctrine or a religion. It is a person, Jesus Christ.”

“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”

“The most deadly enemies of the Roman Catholics are they who love best their religion as Protestants. When we look to individuals we always find it so, though it hardly suits us to admit as much when we discuss these subjects broadly.”