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

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

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

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

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.

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

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

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