Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
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.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
God is not a diversion.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
