For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

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

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

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

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

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

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

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

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

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

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce

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