“Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.”
Questions about God have occupied human minds for as long as human minds have existed. These quotes approach the divine from every angle — faith, doubt, reverence, and the honest wrestling that happens when you take the biggest questions seriously.
“God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.”
“Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.”
“In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.”
“I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.”
“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”
“My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.”
“If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.”
“How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.”
“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”
“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”
“Einstein, stop telling God what to do!”
“There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.”
“Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?”
“Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.”
“Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.”