Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
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.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Devotion is a social force.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
