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

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Devotion is a social force.

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

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

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

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

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

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

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

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

God is not a diversion.

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

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

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

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