We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

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

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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

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

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

Faith without doubt is addiction

God has no religion.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .