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

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

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.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

Devotion is a social force.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude

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

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.