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If my children wake up on Christmas morning and have someone to thank for putting candy in their stocking, have I no one to thank for putting two feet in mine?
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
- Charity
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. II: “Divine Omnipotence”
- Theology
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon1940–1980John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970), “God”
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Where All Roads Lead
- Atheism
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies but he hopes he’ll never have to use it.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 185 (2 October 1711).
- Atheism
From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city, every village, and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Signing into law the phrase “One nation under God” into the Pledge of Allegiance (14 June 1954)
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure⁠—that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee (13 July 1925)
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature⁠—trees, flowers, grass⁠—grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear.
LSLuther Sutherland
- Science
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun1888–1939“A New Preface to an Old Story”, Broun’s Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
- Atheism
Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963A Preface to Paradise Lost