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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.