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.
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Faith without doubt is addiction
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
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.