Spiritual progress is like a detoxification

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

I defy anyone to imagine an environment more exquisitely designed to provide us with opportunities for spiritual growth than this life of ours.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

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 a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

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.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

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.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

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

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.

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