Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
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.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
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.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
