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.

Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

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.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

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.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

God has no religion.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.