Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

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.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

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

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.