Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

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

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

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

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.

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.

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

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

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

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

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

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

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

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.