“An honest God is the noblest work of man.”
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.
“Gray hair is God's graffiti.”
“An honest God is the noblest work of man.”
“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?”
“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.”
“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
“Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.”
“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.”
“Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.”
“Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.”
“It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.”
“God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.”
“Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.”
“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
“We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.”
“As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.”