As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
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.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
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.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
