What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
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.
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.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
