Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
