God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
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.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.