The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
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.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
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.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
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.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
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.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
