Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

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

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

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.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

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

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.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

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

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.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.