Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.

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

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

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

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

God has no religion.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

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