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.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
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.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Devotion is a social force.