Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
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.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Devotion is a social force.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
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.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
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.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
