We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
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.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.
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.
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.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
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.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
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.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
