Robert A. Heinlein quote: "If God existed (concerning which Jubal maintained neutrality) and if He wanted to be worshipped (a proposition which Jubal found improbable but nevertheless possible in the light of his own ignorance), then it seemed wildly unlikely that a God potent to shape galaxies would be swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered as “worship.” But"

If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Jubal paused, surprised at himself. He had intended to make the usual agnostic approach . . . and...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

But, sir, isn't death a dreadful thing?" asked Malcolm.

"That depends on whether a man re...
GEORGE MACDONALD

If Christianity should happen to be true -- that is to say, if its God is the real God of the univer...
G. K. CHESTERTON

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON

Jubal had long ago even foresworn pets, because he outlived them, or (worse yet) it was now possible...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God w...
GEORGE MACDONALD

A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE

Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT

Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come ...
C.S. LEWIS

I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE

...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He se...
GENE EDWARDS

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard no...
LEWIS CARROLL

One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of s...
W.E. (WILLIAM EDWIN) SANGSTER

Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to ble...
RICHARD CHEVENIX TRENCH

The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned t...
R. SCOTT BAKKER

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His ...
LACTANTIUS

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a go...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS...

I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it,...
PHILIP PULLMAN

The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak.
INDONESIA123

Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 I can see no intellectual objection to ...
DONALD O. SOPER

He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

The language of the mystics cannot meet the language of science and reason, but nevertheless in a wo...
RENE VOUILLAUME

God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some peopl...
C.S. LEWIS

Dr. Jubal Harshaw, professional clown, amateur subversive, and parasite by choice, had long attempte...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. ...
THEODORE PARKER

Sadly enough, some people are insecure in such a way that they cannot bear the thought of the sovere...
CRISS JAMI

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW

His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically im...
C.S. LEWIS

God is not anybody's problem, nor are the many paths to him. However, man is God's problem. Most of ...
SUZY KASSEM

Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

That Jones shall worship the god within him turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jo...
G.K. CHESTERTON

And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
BIBLE

If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do,...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

The self-centered regret which a man feels when his sin has found him out -- the wish, compounded of...
JAMES DENNEY

Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 Most Christians would agree with C. S. Lewis...
CLARK H. PINNOCK

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER

To the spiritual perplexity which exercised so many of the rarest souls of the nineteenth century, G...
JOHN BAILLIE

Ah! If you have a self-will in your hearts, pray to God to uproot it. Have you self-love? Beseech th...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

After our first parents had sinned, if God had changed His mind about the goodness of the human body...
DAVID L. HATTON

I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to aboli...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

Continuing a series on God and the human condition: That Jones shall worship the "god within him" ...
G. K. CHESTERTON

The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY

TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT

To me, to whom God hath revealed his Son, in a Gospel, by a Church, there can be no way of salvation...
JOHN DONNE

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258 There are doubtless many reasons for the degener...
J. B. PHILLIPS

If God wanted us to play football in the air, then he would have built a pitch in the clouds
BRIAN CLOUGH

To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely p...
C.S. LEWIS

A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aw...
MEISTER ECKHART

We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be gracio...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

Ask God to use you. Ask Him to show you how you can be a blessing everywhere you go. Keep honoring H...
GERMANY KENT

Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 If you hav...
MEISTER ECKHART

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hatefu...
KARL BARTH

David was caught in a very uncomfortable position; however, he seemed to grasp a deep understanding ...
GENE EDWARDS

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
JULES RENARD

if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or ...
PLATO

Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdraw...
PAUL BOWLES

The symbol of a drama, a symphony, or a dance is useful to correct a certain absurdity which may ari...
C.S. LEWIS

They were in a better condition, acknowledging only a terror above them flaming on that unknown moun...
GEORGE MACDONALD

Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodnes...
GERMANY KENT

Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 If God said, "I forgi...
GEORGE MACDONALD

Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would...
DAVID JENKINS

My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...
GEORGES BATAILLE

You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

I handed them a script and they turned it down. It was too controversial. It talked about concepts l...
GENE RODDENBERRY

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS

Having placed himself on the level of the world for humans to choose between, God nevertheless stipu...
MARK A. TIETJEN

If God had a wife, He would be in trouble too if He dodged His chores.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO

Strife -- in philosophy, religion, and politics -- has certainly gained so much ground that it is im...
JAN AMOS COMENIUS

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dull...
C.S. LEWIS

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showe...
GARRISON KEILLOR

My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you...
JANE GOODALL

But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shew...
BIBLE

What is ‘truth’?” Mike asked. (“What is Truth?” asked a Roman judge, and washed his hands ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that...
C.S. LEWIS

People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL

You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE

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