It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
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.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
Devotion is a social force.
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.
