Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Devotion is a social force.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

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 art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

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.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Prayer is a turning to God.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.