On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
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.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
