The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
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.
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.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
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.
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.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
