“It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.”

“The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.”

“The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.”

“Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.”

“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.”

“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.”

“I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.”