All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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.
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.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
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.
