Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
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.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
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.'
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.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
