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Don't be an agnostic--be something.

Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.

The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.

God's first creature, which was light.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

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.

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions.".

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.