There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
God is not a diversion.
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.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
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.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
God has no religion.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
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.
