As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

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.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.

Devotion is a social force.

Prayer is a turning to God.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

Faith without doubt is addiction

Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

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.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

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