"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low."

"Bidden or unbidden, God is present."

"Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians."

"In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle."

"He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love."

"Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience. Atheism is no experience only measurement."

"Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself."

"...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should."

"I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. I wasn't brought up in a religious way, but I believe there's something out there that looks after you."

"Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him."

"Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom."

"Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed."

"Nothing in Christianity is original."

"God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'."

"THOSE WHO REALLY do know Christ in the modern world do so by seeking and entering the kingdom of God."

"The single most obvious trait of those who profess Christ but do not grow into Christ-likeness is their refusal to take the reasonable and time-tested measures for spiritual growth."

"God’s care for humanity was so great that he sent his unique Son among us, so that those who count on him might not lead a futile and failing existence, but have the undying life of God Himself. JOHN 3:16"

"Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible."

"The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him."

"Single-minded and joyous devotion to God and his will, to what God wants for us-and to service to him and to others because of him-is what the will transformed into Christliheness looks like."

"Hell is not an 'oops!' or a slip. One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God."

"Legalists and theological experts with “lips close to God and hearts far away from him” (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these."

"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."

"Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book."