If God listened to the prayers of men all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
If there were no God it would be necessary to invent him.
If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
For where God built a church there the Devil would also build a chapel.
If I had to choose a religion the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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?'
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have hostility is not from God bitterness unforgiveness all of these are attacks from Satan.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Surely God would not have created such a being as man with an ability to grasp the infinite to exist only for a day! No no man was made for immortality.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.