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.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
