I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
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.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
