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.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

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.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

God has no religion.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.