Quotes about religion and faith

“Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.”

Corrie ten Boom book The Hiding Place

“Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way… God can give us the perfect way.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

“If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.”

Corrie ten Boom book The Hiding Place

“There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

“Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

“What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

“Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

“Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.”

Corrie ten Boom book The Hiding Place

“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

“In darkness God's truth shines most clear.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

“If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

“In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."”

Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer

“Sometimes, I sit back and look at life from a different angle. Don't know if I'm God's child, or I'm Satan's angel.”

50 Cent (1975) American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer

“I made a metamorphose, I'm a new person today, because I used to strongly and honestly, honestly! I feel like I can represent my generation so much because I honestly did not care whether I lived or died. But now I can not die, with people thinking I'm a rapist or a criminal, I can not leave until this shit is straight, you know I'm not suicidal. I can't go until ya'll really know what time it is. And then after that, BOOM!, It's all over and we can see how this shit fall, but that's how it is, and the reason being is because if I can't live free, if I can't live with the same respect as the next man, I don't wanna be here, because god has cursed me to see what life should be like, If God wanted me to be this person and be happy here, he wouldn't let me feel so oppressed, he wouldn't let me feel so trampled on, you know what I'm saying, he wouldn't let me think the things I think. So I feel I'm doing Gods work, you know what I'm saying just because I don't have nothing to pass around for people to put money in a bucket don't mean I ain't doing God's work.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“There are wars in this world, not because wars are the will of God but because of greed and arrogance, the lust for power and domination. There is hunger not merely because there is lack of food, but because of political and economic policies that foster inequality of the distribution of resources, because of one-sided control of world markets by powerful nations who refuse to enter seriously in the search for a more just, equitable, and sustainable economic order.”

Allan Boesak (1946) South African anti-apartheid activist

“Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.”

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990) Swiss author and dramatist

“As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity…of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. I never lie down at night without reflecting that —- young as I am — I may not live to see another day. Yet no one of all my acquaintances could say that in company I am morose or disgruntled.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer

“I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.”

Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer