From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

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

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.

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

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Prayer is a turning to God.

God has no religion.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

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

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

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

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.