He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

I have always hated bowling, and I don’t mind admitting it.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

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

God to me is love.

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

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

God always has patience.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

I hate being called an ‚icon.‘ I just don’t like it. That’s all there is to it.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

God wants to bless us where we are.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.