Quotes
Quotes about Wit
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.
There are things you would love to hear but will never hear fromthe person you want to hear them from, but don't be deaf to the personwho says it with his heart.
In isolated societies creeds can be preserved. It is where people of different traditions, outlook and creeds mingle freely and exchange ideas that religious beliefs begin to be eroded. No one changes his beliefs without some instigation, some novel experience, some modification of the customary course of things, and in a closed society people believe what all their fellows obviously believe. Only when they are brought into contact with persons whom they respect holding different views do they begin to look at their inherited beliefs critically.
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.
Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your bodyâthe assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.
The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.
In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.
With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.
