There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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.

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.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Devotion is a social force.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.