We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
