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

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

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

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

Religion is the opium of the masses.

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

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

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

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.

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

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

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

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

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

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.