The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

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.

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.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

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.'

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.

The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.

God has no religion.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

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.

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

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.