If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

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

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.