The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

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

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Prayer is a turning to God.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

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.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

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.'

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

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

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?