The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
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.
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.
Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
God has no religion.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
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.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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.
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.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter
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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