“It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.”

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

It is certain because it is impossible.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.

Christians are made, not born.

I don’t want to believe. I want to know.

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

All thinking men are atheists.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.