I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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.
A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
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.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
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.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
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 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.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
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.
