Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
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.
Faith without doubt is addiction
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
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 chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
God is not a diversion.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
