To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
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.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Religion is the opium of the masses.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
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.
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.
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.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.