On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.

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.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

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

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

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.

Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce

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

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.