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.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

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

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

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

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.

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

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.