Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
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.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
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.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
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.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
