"Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle."

"He [Erasmus Darwin] used to say that 'unitarianism was a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian."

"Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God."

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone."

"Even when she walks one would believe that she dances."

"Did he really believe God wrote stories that were open to one explanation only? A story that knew but one explanation could hardly be interesting and was certainly not worth the trouble of remembering."

"We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard."

"Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness to sacrifice. We can win and keep our own self-respect and build a great union that will secure the spirit of all people if we do it through a re-dedication and re-commitment to the struggle for justice through non-violence."

"We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot."

"Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith."

"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you're right."

"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us."

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe"

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"[The Hits 1789-'97 George Washington was serenaded with new words to] God Save the King ... I don't know whether you have abandoned your old principles or whether you ever had any."

"A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve"

"Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe."

"Show a little faith, there's magic in the night."

"The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation."

"We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."

"It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures."

"God made me and broke the mold."