God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?
Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.