As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

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.

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

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

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

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

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

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

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

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

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

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

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

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.