The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)

Pray to God, but hammer away. (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. (Quote by - Felix Adler)

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contained in the sacred writings. (Quote by - John F. Herschel)

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?". (Quote by - Annie Dillard)

The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up. (Quote by - Jim Bakker)

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin. (Quote by - James Elroy Flecker)

My mind is my own church. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)

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. (Quote by - Timothy Jones)

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface. (Quote by - Marianne Williamson)

Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds. (Quote by - F.a. Hayek)

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. (Quote by - Stephen Roberts)

The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. (Quote by - Robert Short)

The church is the great lost and found department. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)

It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my strength was used up, and I couldn't go on, renewed me. (Quote by - Ann W. Compton)