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Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them.

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.