The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.