I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
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.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
