Faith without doubt is addiction
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.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
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.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
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.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
God has no religion.
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.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
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.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
