Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Sin is geographical.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.