God and Religion

"If you were the only person on earth, Christ would have still suffered and died for you."

St. Augustine of Hippo

God and Religion

"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

God and Religion

Life and Death

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Friendship and Hostility

God and Religion

"Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy."

Albert Schweitzer

God and Religion

"The blood of Christians is seed of Christianity."

Tertullian

God and Religion

"God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves."

Simone Weil "Love"

God and Religion

Love

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."

Clive Staples Lewis "Mere Christianity"

God and Religion

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

St. Augustine of Hippo

God and Religion

"God is the infinite ALL. Man is only a finite manifestation of Him."

Lev Tolstoy

God and Religion

Human

"Good is only beauty put into practice."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Beauty and Ugliness

God and Religion

"God [...] created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution."

Graham Greene

God and Religion

Various

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."

Rabindranath Tagore

God and Religion

"Trust God, check all others."

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God and Religion

Trust

"The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me."

Martin Buber

God and Religion

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars."

Elbert Green Hubbard

God and Religion

"Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

God and Religion

Sin and Conscience

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."

Albert Einstein

God and Religion

"Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it."

Clive Staples Lewis "Mere Christianity"

God and Religion

"Me not on the black man's side, me not on the white man's side. Me on God's side."

Bob Marley

God and Religion

Human

"The preaching in the churches does not make the lightning rods on them unnecessary."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

God and Religion

"True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue."

Joseph Joubert

God and Religion

"The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life."

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

God and Religion

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

Voltaire

God and Religion

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

St. Augustine of Hippo

God and Religion

Work and Laziness

"The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"

Beauty and Ugliness

God and Religion

"If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence."

Simone Weil "Detachment"

God and Religion

"How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life."

Martin Buber

God and Religion

Life and Death

"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."

Voltaire

God and Religion

"No one is without Christianity [...] Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race."

William Faulkner

God and Religion

Human

"Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

God and Religion

"Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation [...]."

Rabindranath Tagore

God and Religion

"The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved they are Jesus in disguise."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

God and Religion

"Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men."

Voltaire

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Manners and Ethics

"He who sings prays twice."

St. Augustine of Hippo

God and Religion

"God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art."

Victor Hugo

Art and Culture

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Nature and Animals

"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"

God and Religion

Good and Evil

"God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings."

Martin Buber

God and Religion

Human

"No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life."

Albert Einstein

God and Religion

"Faith which does not doubt is dead faith."

Miguel de Unamuno

God and Religion

"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

St. Augustine of Hippo

God and Religion

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

Henry Louis Mencken

God and Religion

"Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs. "

Miguel de Unamuno

God and Religion

"If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in him, while if he does exist, one will lose everything by not believing."

Blaise Pascal

God and Religion

"I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?"

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

God and Religion

Human

"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."

Henry Miller

God and Religion

Reality and Imagination

"God creates out of nothing. [...] but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "The Journals of Soren Kierkegaard: A Selection"

God and Religion

Sin and Conscience

"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

God and Religion

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. "

Albert Einstein

God and Religion