Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

God’s first creature, which was light.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Nature abhors annihilation.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

To be is to do.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

States are not moral agents.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

God has entrusted me with myself.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.