One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
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.'
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
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.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
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.
