You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
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.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
