The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult ; and left untried.

G. K. Chesterton | 1874-1936

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib | c. 11th Century

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein | 1879-1955

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift | 1667 - 1745

The Church exists to draw men unto Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the Cathedrals, clergies, missions, sermons, even the bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became man for no other purpose.

C. S. Lewis | 1952

The gift of monotheism is to eliminate these petty tribal conflicts and to institute the notion of the one God who is father to us all regardless of race or creed or gender or nation or any other personal characteristic.

Muhammad Yusuf Al Hussaini | 2008

Did blind chance no that there was light, and what was its infraction, and fir the eyes of all creatures after the most conscious manner, to make use of it? These and such like considerations, always have and ever will prevail with mankind, to make believe that there is a being who made all things, and has all things in his power and who is therefore to be feared.

Isaac Newton

Our greatest danger in life is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit our target.

Steve Chalke | 2015

When you are arguing against (God), you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: It is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

C. S. Lewis | 1952