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.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
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.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
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.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
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.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
