Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by 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.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
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.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
