When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

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

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

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

God is not a diversion.

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

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

Devotion is a social force.

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

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