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.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

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.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce

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.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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 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.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

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.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

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.