You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

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.

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

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

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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

God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

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

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

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

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.