Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

Faith without doubt is addiction

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.

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

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

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

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

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.

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.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

God is not a diversion.

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

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

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

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

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

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