God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
