It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
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.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
