Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
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.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
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.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
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.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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 God, only I spell it Nature.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
