Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
