“I venerate the intellect of man. I believe in its undreamed-of possibilities, when it grows free like an oak in the forest and is not dwarfed in a flower-pot. From that allegiance I have never wavered. That is the God I have never forsworn.”

“I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!”

“I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.”

“My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.”

“When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ.”

“I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.”

“"I never believed in God before." — that I understand. But not: "I never really believed in Him before."”

“Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.”

“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”

“I have never in my life needed God - from the infancy, since I was 5, I was self-sufficient.”