Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

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

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

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.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

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

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

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

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

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.