An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
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.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
