Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in 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.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
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.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
