Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
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.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
