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

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

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

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.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

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.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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.

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

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

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

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.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

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