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

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

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

The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

One religion is as true as another.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.

Whatsoever is, is in God.

The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.