Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
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.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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.
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.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
