I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

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.

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.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.