All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
