Faith is a state of openness or trust.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
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.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.