Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
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.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
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.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
