God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
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.
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.
Devotion is a social force.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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.
