You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
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.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
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.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
