I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

God’s desire is that we excel.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

I just want to lobby for God.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Life is short, the art long.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

The way to know life is to love many things.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.