Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
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.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
Prayer is a turning to God.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
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.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
