While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Every man for himself and God for us all.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.