The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
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.
Devotion is a social force.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
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.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
