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

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

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.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

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.'

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven