By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

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.

Scientist believe in things, not in persons

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Devotion is a social force.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.