When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
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.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
