Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

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.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

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.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

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.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.