I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

I don’t believe in icons.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

I’ve got nothing to say most of the time.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

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

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.