Religion is the opium of the masses.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
