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.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
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.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
