God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.