While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
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.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
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.
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.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?