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.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
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.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
God is not a diversion.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
