Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Prayer is a turning to God.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
