My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
