I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Prayer is a turning to God.
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.
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.
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 comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
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.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
