It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Devotion is a social force.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
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.
Faith without doubt is addiction
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
