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

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

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

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

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

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

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

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.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .

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

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.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

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