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

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world

Scientist believe in things, not in persons

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.

Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time

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

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

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

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

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.