Honore de Balzac Quotes

I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions.

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.

Science only goes so far, then comes God. - Noah Calhoun-

Prayer's a very tricky business.

Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

Mission exists because worship doesn't.

The religion of which you are a part is 7 days a week. It isn't just Sunday, it isn't the block plan, it isn't just 3 hours in church, it isn't just the time you spend in Seminary - it's all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

I'm a Mormon, but I share your faith in the atonement of the savior, Jesus Christ. In my faith, we have a guy who gave his life for what he believed in. You don't have to believe it; I'm not asking you to. I'm asking you, "What is it that you believe? Are you willing to give your life?"

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.

When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.