We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You', that would suffice.
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
I would stand with God against man, rather than with man against God.
Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.
God helps those who help themselves.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.
God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
God give me the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed; Give me courage to change things which must be changed ;And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe, that thou mayest understand.
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
If your dream doesn't come true, it's only because God has something even better planned for you.
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Don't place question mark in the place where God already place a full stop.
Man is the result of God's experiments with artificial intelligence.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
God's pay is not great, but his retirement plan is out of this world.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness ... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
Christians are made, not born.
Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the kitchen makes you a cook.
