If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
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.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
