If God listened to the prayers of men all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

If there were no God it would be necessary to invent him.

If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

For where God built a church there the Devil would also build a chapel.

If I had to choose a religion the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'