Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
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.
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.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
God has no religion.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
