Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
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.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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.
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.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
