- Henry David Thoreau
Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
- Bill Maher
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise Man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Only in atheism does the spring rise higher than the source, the effect exist without the cause, life come from a stone, a silk purse from a sow's ear, and a Bach Fugue from a kitten walking across the keys.
- James M. Gillis
The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.
- Sydney J. Harris
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
- George Herbert
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Sir Francis Bacon
Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. - Anonymous
Never undertake anything for which you would not have the courage to ask the blessing of Heaven.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Don't wait for your ship to come in�swim out to it.
- Unknown
I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa
I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. -Dr. Rene A. Layco
Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.
- Hugh Reginald Haweis
Knowledge of divine things is lost to us by incredulity.
- Heraclitus
Your doubts are private detectives employed by your dislike to make a case against change or choice.
- William Robert Rogers
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt and read to scorn.
- Sir Walter Scott
Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an ordainer.
- Asa Gray
Faith is not a stained-glass word reserved only for religious use, though it is essential to life. It is not something we can see on every streetcorner, but we dare not cross the street without it.
- V. Carney Hargroves
Be on the level and you won't go downhill.
- Unknown
Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
- William R. Inge
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free practice thereof.
- First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Churches will take longer to achieve integration because they are undertaking a much greater accomplishment. Worshiping together is a more personal thing than riding trains or attending movies together. Tolerance is not enough; it must be real brotherhood or nothing.
- Frank T. Wilson
A Carpenter made mankind, and can only that Carpenter remake mankind.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Thou hast conquered, Galilean.
- Julian the Apostate
Cowardice asks, Is it safe? Expediency asks, Is it politic? Vanity asks, Is it popular? But conscience asks, Is it right?
- William Morley Punshon
Abundance consists not so much in material possessions, but in an uncovetous spirit.
- John Seldon
Go put your creed into your deed, nor speak with double tongue.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is fanaticism today is fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table tomorrow.
- Wendell Phillips
We bring the atoms of sin to the cross where they are smashed.
- Anonymous
God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that we offend not with our tongue.
-- Thomas Watson
We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.
- Mark Twain
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
-- Martin Luther
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The final contribution of religious faith to freedom is the freedom to confess our sins; the freedom to admit that we sit under the ultimate judgment of God.
- Ursula W. Niebuhr
How blind are men to Heaven's gifts!
- Lucan
Do well with what thou hast; or it will do thee no good.
- William Penn
Some people treat God like they do a lawyer; they go to Him only when they are in trouble.
- Anonymous
With God, over the sea; without Him, not over the threshold.
- Russian Proverb
I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.
- Saadi
We often praise the evening clouds, and tints so gay and bold; But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged those clouds with gold.
- Sir Walter Scott
I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.
- C.S. Lewis
There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
No amount of good deeds can make us good persons. We must be good before we can do well.
- Chester A. Pennington
Why in the world �that when I do something good- nobody remembers, but when I do �something bad- nobody forgets? It�s really a cruel world out there!
Dr. Rene A. Layco
A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle.
- Unknown
I search in vain in history to find the similar to Jesus Christ, or anything, which can approach the gospel.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Culture of intellect, without religion in the heart, is only civilized barbarism and disguised animalism.
- Christian Karl von Bunsen
""Life is a road full of twists and turns, learn to enjoy the ride no matter how bumpy it is. For every twist and every turn, a blessing is always given in return."
Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients clearly labeled.
- Helen Hudson
In the end it will not matter to us whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
- G.K. Chesterton
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
- Louis L'Amour
You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
- Barbara Bush
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
- Felix Frankfurter
Language forces us to perceive the world as men present it to us.
- Julia Penelope
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
- Admiral Hyman Rickover
Each 24 hours, the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.
- Hugh Allen