The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

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

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

Devotion is a social force.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.

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

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

God does not work for you, He works with you.

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

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

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.