If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

Prayer is a turning to God.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

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

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

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

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.