We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.

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.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.

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.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

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.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.