“Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”
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 and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.”
“Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”
“God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.”
“So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.”
“I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.”
“Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.”
“Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.”
“Let every man be true and every god a liar.”
“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?”
“Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'”
“I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.”
“We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.”
“God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.”
“If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.”
“But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.”
“If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.”