Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
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.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
