You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

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

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

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

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

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

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

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.