Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in read more

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. read more

Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Pray to God, but hammer away.

Pray to God, but hammer away.

To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other read more

To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, read more

God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,.