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Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

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.

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.

There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

He who loses money loses much; he who loses a friend loses muchmore; he who loses faith loses all.

Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they'vebeen hurt before.

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.

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid.