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.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
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.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
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.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
