The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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.