Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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.
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.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Devotion is a social force.
The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.
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.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
God is not a diversion.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
