Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
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.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
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.
Prayer is a turning to God.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
