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People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.