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

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

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

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.

The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

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

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

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

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

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

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

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

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.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth