But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
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.
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.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
God has no religion.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
