It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

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

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

To be is to do.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Christians are not limited to any church.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

I answer only to God.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?