As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
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.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.