Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Where love is, there God is also.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Character is destiny.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Man is a universe within himself.