I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.