Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause.
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
