Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorNo creo que God exactly wants us to be happy, he wants us to be capable of loving and being loved, he wants us to mature, and I suggest that precisely because God loves us he granted us the gift of suffering; or to put it another way: pain is the megaphone that God uses to awaken a world of the deaf; because we are like blocks of stone, from which the sculptor gradually forms the figure of a man, the blows of his chisel that cause us so much harm also make us more perfect.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorIf you don't study theology, it doesn't mean that you don't have ideas about God, but rather that you will have many misconceptions.
Simone Weil
View AuthorWhy should I worry? It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is God's concern to think about me.
Simone Weil
View AuthorFor your right hand to ignore what your left hand does, it will have to be hidden from consciousness.
Stefan Zweig
View AuthorThose who proclaim that they fight in favor of God are always the least peaceful men on Earth. As they believe to perceive heavenly messages, they are deaf to every word of humanity.
Robert Burton
View AuthorWhere God has a temple, the devil raises a chapel.
Ramón de Campoamor
View AuthorMy faith is so fulfilled that I adore God, even though He gave me life.
Montesquieu
View AuthorThe Christian religion, which seems to have no other purpose than the happiness of the afterlife, also makes us happy in this life.
Blaise Pascal
View AuthorWhat good is it for a man to gain the world if he loses his soul? Whoever wants to save their soul will lose it.
Jaume Perich
View AuthorReligion serves to help us and console us in the face of problems that we wouldn't have if religion didn't exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
View AuthorRationalize faith? I wanted to become its owner and not its slave, and in doing so, I ended up in slavery instead of attaining freedom in Christ.
Voltaire
View AuthorIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.