Faith is a state of openness or trust.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

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.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

God has no religion.

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

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.