On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
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.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
God has no religion.
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.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
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.
