God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
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.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.