From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
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.
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.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
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.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
