A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
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.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
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.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
