Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
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.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
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.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
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.
