Split a piece of wood and I am there.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
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.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
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.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
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 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.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
