A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who if he knows anything, knows how little he knows.
After all, what's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
As for future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Heathen, n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.
If you can't believe in God the chances are your God is too small.
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.
My own mind is my own church.
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
Religion is the way we honour our ancestors' errors.
The church exists for the sake of those outside it.
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.
The Pope is barely Catholic enough for some converts.
The test for a prophet is in the Bible. It is this. "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken."