The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
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.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
