Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
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 commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
