I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
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
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
