The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

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.

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

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.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

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.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.

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.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

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.