Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

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 believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.