Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

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.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not read more

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to read more

The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.