God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

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

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

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

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

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.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

Devotion is a social force.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

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

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

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