Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.

You need to find your gift, something that differs you from others

The holiness of the gospel softens the hardness of the heart.

I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds.

If my son is happy, then I am happy.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…