Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
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.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to 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.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
