Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
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.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
