The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth, Health and Power.
To tolerate everything is to teach nothing.
We are a rather big-headed little species in a vast cosmos which can do without us very well.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt and hesitation.
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.
I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul.
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will, and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom, and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but you must get at a man through his own religion, not through yours.