Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Religion is a sham when it claims to reveal the secret of life and death, to possess the eternal supreme truth, when it says that he who does not believe shall be damned.

Religion is all profit. They have no merchandise to buy, no commissions to pay, and no refunds to make for unsatisfactory service and results....Their commodity is fear.

People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

I have never doubted. I have had a firm belief in God and the church.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

I believe in angels. I believe in God.

Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.