Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
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.
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.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
