I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

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

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

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Devotion is a social force.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

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

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

God is not a diversion.