The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Devotion is a social force.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
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.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
