Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
Who is the most favoured of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
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.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
