On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.

Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

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

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

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

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

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.

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.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.