Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
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.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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.
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.
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.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
