Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.