Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

- Charles Templeton

You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.

- Charles Templeton

The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that e…

- Charles Templeton

He [Jesus] was the greatest human being who has ever lived. He was a moral genius. His ethical sense was unique. He was the intrinsically wisest pers…

- Charles Templeton

The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is.

- Charles Templeton

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.

- Charles Templeton