Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.

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.

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.