Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

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.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

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

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

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.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

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 world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

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.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.