Children must grow in the awareness of the brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God. If no provision is made for this atmosphere and this teaching we are denying them their due. Faith in man involves faith in God; faith in God creates faith in man. Without faith, man is ~ a creature bereft of roots; he cries and withers quickly. Faith in the God within him who makes him say, ‘I’, ‘I’, ‘I’., when referring to what he was made to say and act and do by the prompting from within - faith is the sustenance on which Love and Courage, Contentment and Joy grow. Children can be easily made aware of this inner I, which has the body as its apparel; they will grow in mutual love and cooperation with all men of all lands, when they know that colour and caste are but apparel which do not affect the true reality. (SSS Vol.5, p. 339)
It is good to be born in a religion, but not good to die in one. Grow and rescue yourself from the limit of regulations, doctrines that fence in your freedom of thought, the ceremonies and rites that restrict and direct. Reach the point where churches do not matter, where all roads end from where all roads began. (L, p. 11)