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.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
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.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
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.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
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.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
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.
