Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
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.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
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.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
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.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
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.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
