Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

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

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

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

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

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

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

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

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

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.

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.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

God is not a diversion.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.