If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
God is not a diversion.
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.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.