The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
Prayer is a turning to God.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
