Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
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.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
God is not a diversion.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
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.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.