Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
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 faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
God is not a diversion.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
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.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
