“It doesn't sound logical to say that a man is an atheist just because he's probably someonewho knows his own God...personally.”

“I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.”

“They say there are no atheists in foxholes. I say there are no atheists when you're begging God to keep alive the person you love.”

“Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

“Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.”

“If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.”