I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

God does not work for you, He works with you.

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

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

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

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.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.