I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in
behalf of a single petitioner confessedly read more

Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in
behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Father! no prophet's laws I seek,--
Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--
I own myself corrupt and read more

Father! no prophet's laws I seek,--
Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--
I own myself corrupt and weak,
Yet will I pray, for thou wilt hear.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed read more

When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed for a time. Now, He's called you home, I'm sad and I shed tears. Yet, I'm glad He loaned you to me and we had these many years.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.

Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.