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

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world

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

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

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.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

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.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.