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.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadow for those who don't.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
God has no religion.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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.
God does not work for you, He works with you.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.