God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
God is not a diversion.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Devotion is a social force.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
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.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
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.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
