Faith, Spirituality and Religion

She [the Catholic Church] holds that it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin.

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

Is not this house as nigh heaven as my own?

If the triangles were to make a God they would give him three sides.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn’t know how to create a maggot, and he creates gods by the dozen.

What does he [God] then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

Just are the ways of God,

O fairest of creation, last and best

Hear all ye angels, progeny of light,

What if earth

But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth

He for God only, she for God in him.

What in me is dark

Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves.

Let us with a gladsome mind

I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.

Religion is … the opium of the people.

I count religion but a childish toy,

The holiest of all holidays are those

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, ‘The judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.