The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
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.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
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.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
