I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
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.
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
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
