I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
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.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
