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.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
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.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
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.
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.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
