The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
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.
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.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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 recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.