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.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

Faith without doubt is addiction

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.

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.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

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.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.