You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
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.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
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.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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.
