Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

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

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

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.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

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

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

Prayer is a turning to God.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

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

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

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

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Devotion is a social force.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

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.