If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
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.'
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.