Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

— H.L. Mencken

Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?

— Andy Stanley

I can't prove it yet know it when I seem it.

— Brian Spellman

If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only illogical but almost disrespectful to African immigrants. Here are people who were born in Africa, speak African languages, eat African food, dance in African ways, remember African stories, and will spiritually always be a part of Africa -and we stand up and insist that we, too, are 'African' because Jesse Jackson said so?

— John McWhorter

Maybe we don’t ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love’s grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Nostalgia was never what it used to be.

— Brian Spellman