Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

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.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

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

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

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.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Prayer is a turning to God.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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.

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