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

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

One religion is as true as another.