Far better it is for you to say: I am a sinner, than to say: I have no need of religion. The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
-Fulton J. Sheen
"Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary"
Quotations
God
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.
-Ravi Zacharias
"Has Christianity Failed You?"
God is not the name of God, but an opinion about Him.
-Pope Sixtus I
"The Ring"
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
-Issac Newton
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
-Swami Vivekananda
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
If you say that God is good, great blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this: God is.
-Bernard Of Clairvaux
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Ramakrishna Paramahansa"
I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
-Voltaire
