The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
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.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
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.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
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.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.