I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

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.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.