If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

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

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

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

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.

God is not a diversion.