To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I read more

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being.

Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in read more

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.

And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.

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.

The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.

The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.