“When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?”

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

We believe slowly when belief brings pain.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.

Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

Belief is 100 percent of the outcome.

I have always been the kid who’s asked ‘Why?’ In my faith, you’re just supposed to have faith. But I was always like, why?

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

You can’t trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

The belief in a thing makes it happen.