The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Devotion is a social force.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
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.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
