Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
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.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.
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.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
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.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
