It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
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.
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.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Prayer is a turning to God.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
