Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
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 legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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.
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 abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
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.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
