Faith, Spirituality and Religion

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

There has been only one Christian. They caught and crucified him-early.

Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey .

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.

O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.