Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Devotion is a social force.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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.
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.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
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.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
