The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
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.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
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