We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Prayer is a turning to God.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
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.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
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.
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
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
