Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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.
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.
