God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
God has no religion.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
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.
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.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.