No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that read more

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.

Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble read more

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so read more

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.