If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

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

God has no religion.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.

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

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

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

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

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

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.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.