Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
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
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
