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Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it; if disgrace be good, they shall have it; if crosses be good, they shall have them; if misery be good, they shall have it; for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good.

What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which in any ancient narrative would have to arouse the historian's suspicion.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

Whenever I explore the land of Yin, I always take one on the chin.

Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong.

When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is only a temporary state of Religion, and whilst it lasts will hardly be seen with pleasure at the helm. Even in its coolest state, it has been much oftener a motive to oppression than a restraint from it.

When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.

When it gets a little hard to care, just think about Him hanging there.

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.

When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is sufficient reason not to believe in any of them.

When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science, then scientists at least have to speak up and say, You re welcome to your delusions, but don't say that they're supported by science.

When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.

When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.

When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.