Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Scientist believe in things, not in persons

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.