“To believe in God starts with a conclusion about Him, develops into confidence in Him, and then matures into a conversation with Him.”

“Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.”

“It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too.”

“And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.”

“The God they preach about is pure invention, a trick. They're the first ones to not believe in Him!”

“To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. ”