Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.