Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be the sons of God.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
