You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

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.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

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.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

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.

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.

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

God has no religion.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?