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

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

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

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

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

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

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.

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.

Faith without doubt is addiction

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

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.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.