Religion

• Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God; and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. -Howard Chandler Christy
• You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? -Freeman Dyson
• Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. -Mignon McLaughlin
• Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. -Malcolm Muggeridge
• God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins. -Mark Twain
• Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. -Anonymous
• You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. -Anonymous
• Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. -Mary C. Crowley
• Through ignorance, a common man considers his own religion to be the best and makes much useless clamour. -Ramakrishna Paramahansa
• Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith. -Adel Bestavros

• I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is. -Albert Camus
• I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. -George Macdonald
• All men can be reached by flattery, even God can (what, after all, is prayer?) -Italo Bombolini
• A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth of philosophy bringeth a man's mind about to religion.-Francis Bacon
• The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not. -Warren Wiersbe
• In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. -Blaise Pascal
• Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -William R. Inge
• Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. -Alexis Carrel
• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. -Dalai Lama
• With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. -Steven Weinberg

• Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for. -Samuel M. Shoemaker
• Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. -Leo Buscaglia
• Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. -Robert H. Schuller
• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. -Edmund Burke
• All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. -Dalai Lama
• Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. -C.C. Colton
• Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. -G.K. Chesterton
• He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more, He who loses faith, loses all. -Eleanor Roosevelt
• The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible. -George Burns