Joseph Franklin Rutherford Quotes

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I have a great faith in God and Jesus.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

I discovered who I was when I discovered God. You are just like your father God.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.

You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.

God decided when we would be born and when we would be born again. We have the Spirit and the Gospel. To think that we deserve to live in different times is to tell God that we deserve a better mission field than the one He has given us.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

You may be ignorant of His presence at the time, but that doesn't mean He doesn't exist. If you look, you will find that He was there all along. You can know that God exists.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

Give us a religion that will help us to live—we can die without assistance.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.