Confession Today

God is not really silent, we are deaf. - Teresa of Avila

You have as much laughter as you have faith. - Martin Luther

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. - Edmund Burke

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Our hope is as certain as Jesus's grave is empty. - Sam Allberry

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Droughts are because god didn't pay his water bill. - Steven Wright

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. - Carl Sandburg

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors. - John Kennedy Toole

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. - Marguerite

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. - John Piper

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. - Ethel Mumford

There lives more faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds. - Alfred Tennyson

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves. - Joni Eareckson Tada

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain. - Jacques Cartier

Faith is not just something you have, it's something you do. - Barack Obama

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world. - Billy Graham

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. - Henry Ward Beecher

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness. - Marianne Williamson

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. - Mark Twain

Blessed be Thou, our God and Lord of Hosts, who has not created me a woman. - Jewish Prayer

Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right. - Brian Tracy

If you are big enough for your dream, your dream isn't big enough for God. - Mark Batterson

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. - Vincent Van Gogh

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

If religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth. - Ravi Zacharias

A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her. - C S Lewis

An author in his book must be like God in the universe: present everywhere and visible nowhere. - Gustave Flaubert

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter into it take with you your all. - Kahlil Gibran

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

The majesty of faith is that it teaches us to see what exists, not merely what catches our attention. - Jonathan Sacks

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

Treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. - Dwight L Moody

It cost God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost him crucifixion. - C S Lewis

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.' - James Nesbitt

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad.
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. - G K Chesterton

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I find that the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions. - Samuel Butler

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. - Richard Rohr

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