The Creation

Men plan and God laughs. - Yiddish Proverb

By grace we are saved through faith. - Kevin DeYoung

There is no substitute for the Bible. - Henry Halley

God created man, but I could do better. - Erma Bombeck

Trust in God - but tie your camel tight. - Persian Proverb

He who praises everybody praises nobody. - Dr. Samuel Johnson

You had no faith to lose and you know it. - Bob Dylan

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. - Indian Proverb

God forgives those who invent what they need. - Lillian Hellman

Faith is believing what you know ain't so. - Mark Twain

A politician... one that would circumvent God. - William Shakespeare

God gives the nuts, but He does not crack them. - German proverb

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. - Steven Wright

He that searches for praise will often find contempt. - Norman MacDonald

Now if we only knew why, we would have the mind of God. - Stephen Hawking

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement. - Charles H Spurgeon

Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. - Mahatma Gandhi

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. - Euclid

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. - Pablo Picasso

Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility. - Leonard Ravenhill

The greatest act of faith is when man decides that he is not God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. - Mark Twain

If God had intended us to fly, He would never have given us railways. - Michael Flanders

The kingdom of God always appears upside down to the human perspective. - David Jeremiah

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it. - William Makepeace Thackeray

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are. - Brad Pitt

Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. - Peter Mere Latham

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. - Benjamin Franklin

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. - Carl Sandburg

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. - Billy Graham

There's a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith. - Billy Graham

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. - Khalil Gibran

And God took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it and created the horse. - Bedouin Legend

I don't work out. If God wanted us to bend over, he'd put diamonds on the floor. - Joan Rivers

Most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms. - Caroline Fraser

Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God. - Ravi Zacharias

God puts you on the runway and takes you off the runway. What you do on the runway is up to you. - Unknown

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. - Dean Koontz

Like a great Eastern religion says, it's all about striking a balance between the ping and the pong. - Kelly

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. - Mark Twain

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. - T D Jakes

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. - Blaise Pascal

The bulletin board on the lawn of a New Jersey Church reads "We reserve the right to accept everybody." - John Kazmark

Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C S Lewis

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph. - Ravi Zacharias

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

Faith isn't about always having all the answers. Faith is about believing that God will always come through for you. - Unknown

When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. - Ravi Zacharias

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing. - Mark Batterson

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. - John Wycliffe

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies, but he hopes he'll never have to use it. - C S Lewis

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace and his or her heart for justice. - Unknown

Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God. - Ravi Zacharias

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. - Mahatma Gandhi

A problem occurs when people want the benefits of a relationship with God without the responsibilities of a relationship with God. - Jim Herring

People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church. - Donald Trump

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. - Galileo Galilei

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people. - Thomas Guthrie

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon. - John Calvin

A wise man knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser man of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle when all odds stand against you. - Shannon L. Alder

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. - Bono