We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

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.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

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.