Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
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.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
