The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

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.

Prayer is a turning to God.

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.

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.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

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

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

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

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

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.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

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.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.