Doubt everything. Find your own light.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
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.
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.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
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.
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.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.