Scientist believe in things, not in persons
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
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.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
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.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
