Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
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.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
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.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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.
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.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
