The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.