Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn’t had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
Religion’s in the heart, not in the knees.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
The Bible is the fountain of truth.
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
