Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him

Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God? Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

When I was quite young, I put my trust in God--not government; and I never get the two confused.

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.

Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

My faith, my hermeneutics does not demand that I correlate every verse. In other words, there are often verses that appear, I'm a John 3:16 Christian, I believe God so loved the world, I do believe that, and I believe that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish. But I also believe, you know, predestination from the foundation of the Earth. So to me, I'm able to hold tensions in my mind rather than having to explain them. To me, I don't fit in a real good box and I believe them both.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.

In the end, we know God as unknown.

To put it in layman's terms, crazy is crazy. And crazy will find a way to do something crazy. Racist is racist. And racist people will find a way to project their racism onto the world.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

He [God] just seems so man-made to me. There are so many theories, and not everyone can be right. It's human nature to need a religious crutch, and I don't begrudge anyone that. I just don't need one.

Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.