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.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
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 had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
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.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
