Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.