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.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
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.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
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.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
