Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
God has no religion.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
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.
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.
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.
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 easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
