Scientist believe in things, not in persons
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
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.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
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.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
