There exists no certainty that God gave man dominion over other creatures. It's, otherwise, more probable that man invented God to sanctify the dominion he took over cows or horses.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Sow joy in your brother's garden; and you'll see it blossom in yours.
I feel dullness, darkness, solitude.
I avert tortures.
Silence and intense emptiness
inside me.
I suffer for searching and not finding Christ,
to listen without hearing.
A smile is a mask or a cloak that covers everything.
We know well that what we do isn't but a drop in the ocean. But if there werern't this drop, the ocean would miss it.
If God were a homophobe I couldn't worship him.
The very paciic man is he who through life's adversities, maintains the peace of the soul.
He sought to become eyes to the blind, ears to the deaf, and a cry in the lips of those whose lips had been sealed. His wish was that of being the trumpet through which the voiceless multitude could reach the sky.
The thought of the non-existence of God never frightened anyone, but it is terrorising to think that there might exist one like that which has been described to me.