You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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
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.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
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.