What did Benjamin Franklin say about religion and God?

A fine subject, and one on which I have been more candid than most men dare to be. Let me give you the clearest account I can from my own pen. My fundamental creed is stated plainly in my letter to Ezra Stiles, written near the end of my life: “I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable Service we render to him is doing good to his other Children” I called these "the fundamental Principles of all sound Religion," and I found them in every sect I encountered. On Jesus of Nazareth, I was equally candid with Dr. Stiles: “I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes” As to his divinity, I confessed honest doubt — though I saw no harm in others believing it, if belief made his doctrines better observed. At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, I pressed my colleagues with the observation that “God governs in the affairs of men” — and asked whether an empire could rise without His aid, when even a sparrow cannot fall unnoticed. What animated me throughout was not doctrine, but the conviction that religion's true test is moral conduct. A man who does good to his neighbors has, in my estimation, worshipped more acceptably than one who merely professes correct opinions.