It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
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.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Faith without doubt is addiction
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
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.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.