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.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

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.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

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.

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.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

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.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

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.