God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

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.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

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.

The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.