Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
