The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

Whatsoever is, is in God.

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.

One religion is as true as another.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

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.

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.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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.

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

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

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.