To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Prayer is a turning to God.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

Devotion is a social force.