We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
