Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
God is not a diversion.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
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.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
