Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
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.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
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.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Faith without doubt is addiction
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.