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.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
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.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
