Scientist believe in things, not in persons
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Faith without doubt is addiction
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Prayer is a turning to God.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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.
