By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
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.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
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 may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
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.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
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.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
