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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.

"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

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.

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.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off.