The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
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 more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
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.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.