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.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

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.

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

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

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.

God is not a diversion.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude

The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

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

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

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.

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

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.