God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

God does not work for you, He works with you.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

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

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

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

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.