You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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.
Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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 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.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
