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.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
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.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
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.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
