“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.”

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

You can make anything by writing.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?

Communism begins where atheism begins.

Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.

Your god is too small for my universe.