“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.”

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.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.

With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation’s historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.

If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any … people of any religious faith in this country.