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

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.

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

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

God is not a diversion.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.

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.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in 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.

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.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

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

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.