Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear

Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

You may be keeping a diary of your thoughts but know that, in every religion, the God you believe is keeping a diary of your actions.

There are only two kinds of people we can call reasonable: either those who serve God with their whole heart because they know him, or those who search after him with all their heart because they do not know him.

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.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

We have, let us face it and admit it, little influence. We prey on them, and we take from them, and we get by; we strip and we whore and we drink too much; we pump gas and we steal and we cheat and we exist in the cracks at the edges of society. Old gods, here in this new land without gods.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

God is a reality of spirit... He cannot... be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

Suffering can bend.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who serve God with all their heart because they know Him, and those who seek Him with all their heart because they do not know Him.

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.