A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
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.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
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 Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
Devotion is a social force.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
