Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
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.
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.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
