Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

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

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 higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

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

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

God is not a diversion.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

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.