When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
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.
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
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
