The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
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.
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.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Prayer is a turning to God.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
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.
