On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
God is not a diversion.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
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.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
