A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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.
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.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
