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.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time
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.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
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.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
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.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
