All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
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.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
