Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
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.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
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 would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
