There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's…

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

There are hundreds of millions who believe the Messiah has come. If he did, then it is unfortunately the case that his heroic sacrifice and death have had no e…

I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that r…