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.

One religion is as true as another.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

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

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.

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.

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

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.

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

Whatsoever is, is in God.