Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
