Copy ImageAnyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else
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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us
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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven
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Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart
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God has no religion
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Hate the sin, love the sinner
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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
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A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me
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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right
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Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods
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No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?""They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer."And what is hell? Can you tell me that?""A pit full of fire.""And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?""No, sir.""What must you do to avoid it?"I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die
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He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter
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Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results
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I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong
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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also
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God save us from people who mean well
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Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread
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No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully
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Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee
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Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it