In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
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.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.
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.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
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.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .