When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
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.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
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 is a state of openness or trust.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
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.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.