Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul..

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down..

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth..

If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eterni….

We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent ….

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense..

The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful..

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, an….

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to gove….

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right ….

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race..

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony..

I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with….

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings soci….

When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every d….

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because br….

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will..

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success..

Hope is the consolation of the world..

I would have all the professors in colleges, all the teachers in schools of every kind, including those in Sunday schools, agree that they would teac….

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul..