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.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Faith without doubt is addiction
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
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 can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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.
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
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.