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 Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
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.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Religion is the opium of the masses.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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.
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.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
