If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
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.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
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.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
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.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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.'
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
