Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
Prayer is a turning to God.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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 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.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.