I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

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

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

God has no religion.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.