Religious Dilemma Quotes

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the Holy Ghost to them, lest he should beget children, to be palmed upon the Elders by the people, bringing the Elders into great difficulties

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.

We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.

But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.

What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.

We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.