I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
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.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
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.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
