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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Conscience is God present in man.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

I’m an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.