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 higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
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.