We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas read more

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.