The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.

I was raised Catholic, but my father’s people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

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.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Born again?! No, I’m not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.