Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
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.
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.
Faith without doubt is addiction
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.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
God has no religion.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
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.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
