The Creation

Conscience is God present in man. - Victor Hugo

I did my best, and God did the rest. - Hattie McDaniel

There is no substitute for the Bible. - Henry Halley

Praising all alike, is praising none. - John Gay

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

Cantaloupe: Got to get married in Church - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. - Benjamin Franklin

Praise, like sunlight, helps all things grow. - Croft M Pentz

If God is dead then everything is justifiable. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. - Henry Ward Beecher

If you desire faith then you have faith enough. - Robert Browning

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. - Tolstoy

Jesus was a Jew, yes, but only on his mother's side. - Archie Bunker

Where God has his church, the Devil will have his chapel. - Spanish Proverb

And if I please you so, my lover, remember praise is comely. - Countee Cullen

For the man who prays in his heart, the whole world is a church. - Sylvain of Athos

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. - Benjamin Franklin

If you have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential. - Tim Keller

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. - St. Augustine

Religion is the essence of culture, and culture is the dress of religion. - Paul Tillich

In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul. - David Wilkerson

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. - Rita Rudner

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. - Leo Buscaglia

There would be no sense in saying you trusted Jesus if you would not take his advice. - C S Lewis

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now? - C S Lewis

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not at hand. - Thomas Aquinas

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue. - Plato

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful. - Paul Tillich

Let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. - Liam Neeson

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana

If God had intended for breasts to be seen, He wouldn't have created large woolen pullovers. - Tracey Ullman

The way you can understand all of the social media is as the creation of a new kind of public space. - Danah Boyd

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. - Helen Rowland

Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. - Ricky Gervais

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. - William P Young

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

I realize the tragic significance of the atom bomb. We thank God it has come to us instead of our enemies. - Harry S Truman

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. - Sydney Smith

Since I got to 80, I've started reading the Bible a lot more. It's kind of like cramming for my finals. - Vincent Watson

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. - C S Lewis

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. - C S Lewis

Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. - C S Lewis

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. - G K Chesterton

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car. - Garrison Keillor

If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British red as possible. - Cecil Rhodes

Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth, for she has held a star. - Larry Barratto

Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ. - Josh McDowell

The love of God shows us that God alone bridges the distance between him and us, enabling us to see this world through Calvary. - Ravi Zacharias

There is not greater reward in our profession than the knowledge that God has entrusted us with the physical care of his people. - Dr. Elmer Hess

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. - Joseph Addison

The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion. - Richard Engel

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. - Martin Luther

I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience? - Mother Teresa

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man. - Andres Segovia

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency. - Jonathan Sacks

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. - James R Lowell

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression. - Malcolm Muggeridge