Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
God has no religion.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
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.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
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.'
