To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
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.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
