To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
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.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.