Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

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

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

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

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.

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

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

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

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

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.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

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

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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

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