If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
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.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
