This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
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.
The most superior amongst the colors in the universe is the colour of Devotion.
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.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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.
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.
