Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
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.
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.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
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.
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.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
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.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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.
