With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more, He who loses faith, loses all.
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible.