Scientist believe in things, not in persons
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
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.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Prayer is a turning to God.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
