Faith is a state of openness or trust.
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.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
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.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth