It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
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.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.