“We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.”

“Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: For wither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.”

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

“In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace.”

“You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world.(Matthew 5:14, The Message)”

“And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”

“We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.”

“My soul doth magnify the Lord,And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.”

“The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.”

“The word ‘God’ is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil – that takes religion.”

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”

“Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.”