“Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.”

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

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

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

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.

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

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 trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women

When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.