We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
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.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
God is not a diversion.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
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.