While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
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.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
God has no religion.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
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
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.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
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.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
