To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

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.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

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

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

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

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.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

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

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

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

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world

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

Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.