When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

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

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

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

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

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

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

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

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

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

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth

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.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

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

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

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.