I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.

God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.