There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
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.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
God is not a diversion.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
