God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

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

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

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

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

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

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

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

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

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

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

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

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

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

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

He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.